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“How do you spell Carluccio?” I ask Helen. “Aiyahhh Billyyyyy…. C.. A.. R.. L.. U..” she bemoans. Sorry Jedi Helen, I can only defend myself and my ignorance that English is still my second language let alone spelling an Italian name. Besides, I’m one of those people that never good with names especially during first [...]

This little piggy went to market… …and this little piggy (me) didn’t feel like going home at all! Every city has markets, but Adelaide has the largest one and not just in Australia, but the largest fresh produce market in the Southern Hemisphere. Fact. Didn’t you know? Me neither, and I only found out during [...]

Malaysia, the country where I was born. Despite being an Australian for over 3 years now, Malaysia is still where my root is, Ipoh is still my home town, and my whole family still lives there. Sadly I don’t go back to visit my family as often as I should, but if I do ever [...]

ATFT had his first Tasting Australia in Adelaide. Tasting Australia is where food and wine media and celebrity chefs from across Australia and around the world to come out and play. It is an eight day celebration of food and wine in the city of churches, Adelaide and South Australia. This year there was over [...]

Since I have some spare time during this Easter long weekend, I thought I better catch up on my long overdue posts about my last trip in South East Asia which covered Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia and the last stop, Laos. My friend, five-fiddy-Phon, an Australian-born-Laotian who visited his relatives in Laos a few years back [...]

As we have just missed our tram to South Melbourne to check out St Ali, we decided to just stay in the city and have breakfast at some of the cafes tucked away in the vibrant Melbourne  laneways. If this is your first time in Melbourne and not sure where to go for some good [...]

Mix it. Roll it. Knead it. Bake it. Softer. Tastier. Better. Hungrier. That’s how Helen and I roll… …the flour dough that is, during a breadmaking workshop at the Convent Bakery inside the Convent Abbotsford, a Melbourne Food & Wine Festival event. My mum would be so proud to see her son making his first [...]

I love Melbourne city. No matter where I turn, there is always another nook and cranny to discover. It is so different compared to Sydney CBD which is usually dead on the weekend because it is more sparse with hot spots scattered all around the suburbs and not easy to get to without a car. [...]

The sun is escalating and the temperature drops rapidly in Melbourne weather. Helen (Grab Your Fork) and I found ourselves pacing down Little Bourke Street, trying to locate a restaurant nearby with the help of the google map on our iphones. The address given has led us to a corner of nothing but skyrises. Everything [...]

A science laboratory or a cafe? I am no coffee connoisseur, actually far from it. But I do love my coffee, and know what I like when I tasted a good one. However, brewing coffee using a Syphon filter device and Bunsen burner is all a little too complicated for me, best to leave this [...]

If you are in Melbourne and happen to be near City Square, you definitely have to check out the Metlink Edible Garden they have set up for the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival this year. Imagine a whole edible garden in your backyard where you can just pick any fruit or vegetable and take a [...]

“Melbourne is the Lady, Sydney is the …” …jests by one of the guests during a “Melbourne vs Sydney” conversation at the world’s longest lunch. Helen (GrabYourFork) and I, two Sydneysiders are already stirring the pot once touched down in Melbourne. We both are very fortunate to be invited by Tourism Victoria to spend a [...]

My travel bug is on strike again, suddenly unmotivated off late. All I want to do is going through my holiday snapshots from the South East Asia trip last year and feeling sorry for myself stuck at home with no where to go. Then it reminds me that I actually still need to catch up [...]

He’s been everywhere, Man. … and I tagged along with Amelie to Australia Capital Territory, Canberra. The Pom, AKA the “Everywhere Man“, has now travelling over 9500km and visited 40 towns out of the 93 places written in the song “I’ve been everywhere, man”, by Geoff Mack. Funny how the words spread, the Pom is [...]